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Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
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Broadway Star Joined: 1/21/04
#50re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 7:39am
Mamma Mia
Hairspray
Les Mis
and of course Blood Brothers!! (ok I know it didnt last as long on Broadway but that ending is very emotional and powerful!)
Cabaret
#51re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 7:40am
Cabaret anyone?
I couldn't move/speak/breathe for awhile after I saw that.
Does the sun really rise in the east?
Does the earth really spin around the sun?
What's it matter in the least?
What's real to me ain't real to everyone.
Does the earth really spin around the sun?
What's it matter in the least?
What's real to me ain't real to everyone.
#52re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 8:33amFinale B-Rent
"I'm sort of like a child genius without being a child or a genius."~Tim Rice-Oxley
Josephine2
Leading Actor Joined: 9/29/06
#53re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 8:34am"42nd Street" Revival...the tap number after the bows
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#54re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 8:41am
"A New Day for Christmas" - ANNIE
"Hard Candy Christmas" - THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS
"Eva's Lament" - EVITA
purpleprince101
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#55re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:15am
Hairspray
Little Shop Of Horrors- I don't know why but i just love it
Rent
Sweeney Todd
Company
#56re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:21am
Jersey Boys, Les Miz, & Rent.
:)
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#57re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 10:44am
I love the not so flashy GG closing. It just breaks your heart.
(The reprisal of "THe Girl Who Has Everything".)
Flashy-"Rose's Turn"
"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world."
"Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.
#58re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 11:01am
I do love Candide's closing very much.
I also enjoy:
Ragtime and Les Miserable
Hairspray was loads of fun...
A Chorus Line was amazing cause it was the first show I ever saw...
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#59re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 11:03amCabaret! The ending is chilling! Rose's Turn rocks pretty hard as well! Oh, and Les Mis too.
"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken. The choosing was not."-Sunday in the Park with George
Wicked63
Broadway Star Joined: 6/18/07
#60re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 11:23am
In recent years- Hairspray! but i could go back 30 years and name so many. Boy did i buzz out of that first performance esp as Bette Midler was in the row in front of me and was having the best time.
Updated On: 6/28/07 at 11:23 AM
#61re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:13pm
This is going to be like deja vu...
Hairspray
The Phantom of the Opera (the way the emotions fly back and forth is insane)
Les Miserables (never ceases to make me cry)
#62re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:14pm
Hairspray
Company
Jersey Boys--such a sucker for those last three notes
#63re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:21pm
SeanMartin - I like when he says "Any questions?" more.
Ragtime
A Man of No Importance
HOW COULD THESE GO UNMENTIONED
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#64re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:26pmPippin! I loved the way it was done with the most recent revival last year. I was awe-struck!
#65re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 12:59pmGYPSY: "Rose's Turn"
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
#66re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 1:16pm
Rose's Turn
One
Children Will Listen
There wouldn't be lights bright enough!
gymdudeva
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/07
#67re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 1:27pm
Pippin's anti-climax (of sorts) at the end.
Rent. With the the girls reprising "Without You" over the boys reprising "No Day Like Today". When they...possible spoiler...
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when they project Mark's film all over the theatre. Gives me goose bumps.
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#68re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 1:29pm
The Les Mis Finale, hands down.
Though, Rose's Turn is a close second IMO...
2ndBalcony
Chorus Member Joined: 11/26/06
#69re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:48pm
Assassins. Especially the original version that I saw 20 years ago. All the assassins are together and there is a voiceover that thanks them for blazing the trail. Then there is a roll call of OTHER assassins who didn't make it into the musical - Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray, etc, etc, etc. The list goes on and on. It's been 20 years and I'm still shaking.
The current ending is good too, but the other one - wow.
#70re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:52pm
"You Can't Stop the Beat" is great! Talk about a closing number where you walk out of a show singing! HA!
The Cabaret revival ending was VERY powerful.
Jack: For your information, most people who meet me do not know that I am gay.
Will: Jack, blind and deaf people know you're gay. Dead people know you're gay.
Jack: Grace, when you first met me, did you know I was gay?
Grace: My dog knew.
#71re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:53pm
Oklahoma is great closing number.
Finale from The Secret Garden always touches me.
What great ones do the less will prattle of
Updated On: 6/28/07 at 04:53 PM
#72re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 4:54pm
"The Ballad of Sweeney Todd"... the door always gets me
And "For Now" from Avenue Q 
#73re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 6:14pm
My votes goes for HAIRSPRAY and LES MIZ. "You Can't Stop the Beat" is just so energetic that you can't help but leave the theatre smiling wide. That final song of LES MIZ (off hand, I'm not sure which reprise of many it is) always moves me greatly.
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Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#74re: Best Closing Number to Broadway Musical
Posted: 6/28/07 at 6:42pm
"You Can't Stop The Beat", my first thought too.
On second thought, "Being Alive", especially after just seeing Raul from front row center!
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